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Combinations that just make sense in the world: beer with fish and chips, Cape Town in the sunshine, and Metallica as the soundtrack for an epic moon mission.

“Give me fuel! Give me fire!” the award-winning metal band sings on top of their characteristic guitar power chords as NASA’s new Artemis 1 rocket flies high into the night sky.

NASA has made excellent use of Metallica’s song ‘Fuel’ to debut the agency’s huge new Artemis 1 moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS).

This Metallica-inspired fuel will get you pumped up for the launch, in case you weren’t already:

Per Space, Artemis 1 was a success, sending an uncrewed Orion capsule to lunar orbit and back. NASA is now gearing up for Artemis 2, which will send four people around the moon no earlier than November 2024.

In April, NASA named the four astronauts who will be on board: the agency’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen.

Congratulations to Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Reid Wiseman of NASA, and Jeremy Hansen, as the #NASA Artemis 2 crew in ‘24! This is a great honor, a proud moment for you and for the nation. Your role in carrying out America’s effort in space will be one of high inspiration! pic.twitter.com/oTYpWgB6JY

— Dr. Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) April 3, 2023

The crew will fly the furthest from Earth than the crew that travelled with Apollo 17 in 1972, going only 420 kilometres above Earth.

At least they’ve got a banger to jam to as they watch our small planet dwindle below them.

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